splistud

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by splistud 5y ago
I'd like to see that. I'd be more interested to see the ethical case for working for any startup that is based on user's being the product, or takes VC money so that it can destroy existing businesses through predatory pricin
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by splistud 5y ago
The internet (for the last few years) is both a megaphone for shouting the narrative of the ruling class, and a funnel for collecting information about every other class.
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by splistud 5y ago
While there are problems with the use of fossil fuels, the oil industry and what we learned to build from the energy and materials it provided changed the world for the better - far more so than anything related to computers or the internet
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by splistud 5y ago
Yep, and Esso + Humble became Exxon. Other parts turned into Mobil, Amoco, Marathon, Unocal and Texaco...
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by splistud 5y ago
He compared them to Japan because the largest attribute of their economic problem is identical - high leverage on overpriced real estate.
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by splistud 5y ago
Because gasoline is also an extremely useful product
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by splistud 5y ago
Definitely better valuations on Canadian companies in the carbon-neutral 'area', and better ideas in my opinion
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by splistud 5y ago
It's completely cultural. Talking about money is considered by many to be crass. I mean, one might as well have tattoos!
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by splistud 5y ago
Fantastic. In return I will review my locals and see what they report.
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by splistud 5y ago
And it was of course a one-off, much earlier event. Your original point was correct with this one exception.
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by splistud 5y ago
What does validating or invalidating have to do with a work of allegory? Scoring points in some long-running argument based on the common misunderstanding of both sides isn't really all that important. Why not, instead, focus on what y
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by splistud 5y ago
Very complex situation, and we likely agree on some of it. I won't rehash that part. Some seldom-described (or taboo) opinions: Part of the dislocation (behavior inconsistent with historical macro economics 101) is caused by dollars ex
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by splistud 5y ago
What other ideas do you have for drastically raising the price of rent?
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by splistud 5y ago
If you lived in the types of areas where people 'move to', you'd see it's not the state that turns purple, it's the immigrants. Then they turn reddish (or they quickly leave).
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by splistud 5y ago
People are working, unemployment has been falling like a stone since 2017. That money is going to go somewhere (and for most that is not 'the bank'). It's going to get spent or put into investments. We're going to contin
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by splistud 5y ago
By all means go to current financial markets and ask for huge loans in this low-interest-rate high-inflation market. It isn't even about risk (though risks caused by regulation/government oversight are manifold). It's about r
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by splistud 5y ago
These are excellent points. But what if a musician is hired to compose a song that is to be played on a brand new instrument? Would the musician not want the instrument to be playable rudimentarily very quickly, so he can begin to demonstra
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by splistud 5y ago
Well, 2.7 from here would be likely not a good thing. That said, why should we generously assume the models are correct? Because, despite the hundreds of lines of hand-waving in this topic, they have not proved to be correct.
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by splistud 5y ago
Let's be very clear. Every mitigation strategy discussed will have massive downward pressure on the population. You don't get to make it harder/more expensive/impossible to generate food and energy and also have the same
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by splistud 5y ago
Okay grownup, assess this. How do we credibly maintain that we can properly maintain stored wastes for centuries, in order to prevent some sort of ecological cataclysm? This is a particularly sensitive question in light of the fact that the
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by splistud 5y ago
Or, you know, people who can read the data. And no, you can't convince me with names, threats, warnings, tears or any amount of nonsense.
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by splistud 5y ago
More than a hundred, probably less than 500
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by splistud 5y ago
If a man is physically fit to work in some capacity, and has learned to live on little income, that man has little to fear. By all means learn to save and invest, but it's not as important as staying healthy, and learning what things y
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by splistud 5y ago
Clear away the clutter. Are you able to sell things for more money than you bought them for and still honor your personal values? If you can, then do so. Forget the slogans, descriptions and tortured analysis. Can you as a human sell things
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by splistud 5y ago
The burden of proof is very much on your side champ
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by splistud 5y ago
It is far more terrifying that some believe you can make simple adjustments to complex systems with no unintended consequences.
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by splistud 5y ago
Agree, that's the best course. For 24/7 types of situations, it will only be a change in use patterns.
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by splistud 5y ago
I can report that our 245 year experience with democracy has us on the verge of doing just that. Any day now...
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by splistud 5y ago
Where do you get the idea that this isn't the very heart of every political campaign? There's a curve of course, where if you promise too much people don't see it as believable. My first experience with this was high school.
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by splistud 5y ago
This is where citizens of a world that has enjoyed the type of civil stability and wealth to allow for caring for nuclear waste sites for roughly 200 years will inform you that they can categorically guarantee that there will be no issues c

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